Cephalic foveolae shallow, often replaced at vertex by small punctures, foveolae well separated with surface between them delicately shagreened, never forming a rugo-reticulate pattern; scapes usually without erect hairs, occasionally 1 or 2 present

...2

2(1)

The dorsal surface of the propodeum subquadrate, less than 1.2 times as long as broad; ant color is a uniform brownish black to piceous

The dorsal surface of the propodeum distinctly longer than broad, more than 1.4 times longer than broad; ants concolorous dark brown to bicolored

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3(2)

Color either concolorous dark brown, or if bicolored, then head and mesosoma usually brown and the gaster dark brown; dorsum of head densely punctate, mesosoma mostly punctate except dorsal face of propodeum, which has deep, coarse, close-set foveolae that form a rugoreticulate pattern, and dorsum of gaster punctate and feebly shining; sparse erect hairs present on most of body except legs and scapes

Color usually bicolored with the head and alitrunk reddish and gaster dark brown; dorsum of head, mesosoma, dorsal face of propodeum, and gaster finely punctate; lacking erect hairs on body except on ventral surface of gaster and occasionally 1 or 2 on scape

Author-Joe MacGown: jmacgown@entomology.msstate.edu The ant web site was uploaded on 6 March 2003 and was last updated on 2 October 2014
(specific pages may have different uploaded and updated dates) Drawings and photographs by Joe MacGown (unless otherwise noted) and copyrighted by the Mississippi Entomological Museum

The development of this web site was supported in part by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture, under Project No. MIS-012040 and the USDA-ARS Areawide Management of Imported Fire Ant Project (Richard L. Brown, Principal Investigator).